Do you need expensive peripherals?

[Tacitus]

I use a wireless mouse I got from a supermarket for about £8 and it has lasted me well for 5 years (though maybe now it is dying).

My keyboard was £120, but it's a typist keyboard. Cherry blues, very minimalist design. It's great for gaming too though. I couldn't go back to a normal keyboard.

[LogicalDrm]

I went from wireless combo to wired. And won't go back if gaming. Latency was just horrible. Current gaming grade wireless stuff might be better but still no.

 

As for price of my current peripherals... Main display is most expensive single part with €200 tag. Being over 5yo its pretty good buy. Second monitor is €17, with €40 stand. Mouse €50, kb €60+€7 (replacement numpad) over 6yo. Mousepad €10. Headphones €100+€60 repair parts. Another pair was free. Other stuff is combined at €55, used and on sale stuff.

 

Actually most expensive peripheals is my chair with €700 tag. But it was used then and has been with me for 8 years.

[GlassBomb]

I don't buy products because they are expensive. I buy them because higher quality stuff is more often than not more expensive.

[LtStaffel]

I'm loving my Logitech G105 keyboard and G700s mouse.  The keyboard I guess is on the lower end of mid-range ($35?) and my mouse would be higher up ($80).  I haven't felt a need to go any higher than this, and one of the main reasons I got the G700s is because of the extra buttons.  Although, I haven't tried a mechanical keyboard...

[minibois]

Pics pls? I'm really curious

I guess you meant the mouse?

 

EDIT: pretty big picture.. It's more yellow in real life by the way

[Tetters]

I am happy with midrange gear ... Corsair K30 keyboard and M40 mouse. For me, spending more wouldn't be worth it, but I do understand why people do. One day I might move up to mechanical keys ....

[Nexxus]

Of course its not needed its just nice. Anyone who tells you otherwise is full of themselves. K70 RGB Blue Swtiches and Logitech G700s

[Charger]

Do you need to buy expensive peripherals? Of course not, most of us started one inexpensive peripherals but they do tend to be nicer when you start getting into more expensive ones.

[Joshua Ondangan]

no you don't really need expensive stuff but everything else is personal opinion.

 

for people who live in the same country as me should know CDR-King they make a lot of cheap stuff that can be used right away until you can afford something better but the 7 days warranty and if you're lucky 1 month warranty is kinda not nice. also did a warranty for them and 2 months later still nothing.

[Blecter]

One you experience higher end, better quality equipment it's really had to go back to low end stuff. I've got a SteelSeries Rival and SteelSeries 6Gv2 mechanical keyboard with reds at home, so nothing crazy price wise and love it. However, when I go back to using cheap mice/keyboards at work it's more than noticable - and while I can deal with it for my own person comfort I could not go back to the cheap membrane keyboard that is running on my server for my main rig. Same with mice - I couldn't be bothered to cheap out on a $10 mouse now.

 

I like to purchase my stuff to last - and to be comfortable. My last mouse was an ASUS ROG mouse that came with one of their gaming laptops back in 2010. It's still being used in my setup - for my server, but none the less, still being used. So I look at like 5 years for gear like this.

[Thronar]

do you have to spend $400 on gaming peripherals? Obviously spending a bit of money on a nice 1080p monitor is good, but keyboard and mouse? Also what keyboard and mouse do you use?

You only need about $140-$200 (Please note this is in AUD so it's probably $20 or so less in USD)

 

Decent mouse $60-$80

Decent keyboard $80-$120

 

Has for what keyboard and mouse I use, for my keyboard I use a poker 2, for my mouse I swap between a naos 7000 and a fk1

[Whorax]

Yes. Once you use nice stuff you'll never go back to the shitty stuff.

[IMPERIUS]

I guess you meant the mouse?

 

EDIT: pretty big picture.. It's more yellow in real life by the way

 

Yes, I meant the mouse. Thanks

[xavouine]

you don't need it but one day you decide you want a mechanical keyboard. You then shop online and find one and WHILE YOU ARE READING reviews you stumble upon gaming mice reviews and decide you need a new one AND WHILE YOU ARE READING mice reviews you stumble upon monitor reviews and decide you need a new one and WHILE YOU ARE READING....

 

[...]

 

... you file in for bankruptcy and live in the streets

 

well that's what happened with me at least

[Charlie Clarke]

My fingers get caught on the keys

[Charlie Clarke]

I want the best peripherals  

That doens't mean they are the most expensive (but usualy are)

I want nice monitor(s), nice mouse, nice keyboard, nice headphones, nice desk and nice chair. Even if i had the best computer in the world, it wouldn't be pleasurable to use it if i hadn't nice peripherals

Also, peripherals doens't need "upgrade" (or at least you don't need to upgrade them often)

True, the first keyboard i bought was 5 years ago and it was microsoft, my new one is only the second keyboard i have ever owned

[insayan]

Yes, I'd buy a topre keyboard in a heartbeat if I could afford it. I have a quickfire rapid-i with custom keycaps at the moment, seeing how much I use it and the expected lifetime (cherry mx switches are rated up to 50 million operations).